Tell-all book by UKIP staffer to expose ‘party corruption and racism’

A former UKIP staffer and parliamentary candidate at the last general election claims to be writing a book revealing dodgy goings-on at the core of the party —having branded her defection from the Conservatives “the biggest mistake of my life“.

Jasna Badzak defected to UKIP in 2008, along with a swathe of Tories from Westminster, and stood in the Westminster North constituency in the 2010 elections. She then worked for six months as a press officer in the London office of MEP Gerard Batten.

In a series of messages on Twitter, Badzak has claimed that she will be making revelations about the alleged racism and corruption of top UKIP figures.

I was prominent Tory, stood for Tories, defected to #UKIP,stood in GE2010 for UKIP the biggest mistake of my life @consfuture @conservatives

“UKIP solely exists to put a few people in the position of MEP to steal as much money as possible for themselves.”

Apparently her book will be out before the 2014 EU Parliament elections, in which Nigel Farage’s party hopes to improve on its second place coup in the 2009 poll. When contacted, UKIP refused to comment.

Daniel Henrysays:

I don’t think Jasna is complaining about “racist thoughts” Lawrence. The accusation seems to be of a racist agenda that would marginalise non-whites and non-British. I hope that’s not something you’re trying to defend!

While we might all have racist thoughts, just as we all have have horrible thoughts of purge types (e.g. Hate and violence) to allow these horrible thoughts to set an agenda is completely unacceptable. No one’s talking about “policing thoughts”, we’re talking about actions that discriminate and marginalise people simply because of their race or background.

English Ladysays:

The woman is a loony. She’s got it all wrong. UKIP is crawling with lefties and UAF TYPES AND EVEN HAS ITS OWN ORO PALESTINE GROUP. She is just a publicity seeker. Shows how way off the mark she is with research.

The trouble is you just have to go and talk to UKIPers to see how far from the truth this is. UKIP is about leaving the EU, and has no policies relating to race. The membership tends to be right wing – seems to overlap with believing in the UK, but it’s about civic nationalism:non-xenophobic form of nationalism compatible with liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. as opposed to BNP style Ethnic Nationalism.

Jasna may have met a racist, I can’t say, but I’ve met a lot of UKIPers and I have met none.

Jimmysays:

Olly Nevillesays:

Having spoken to Jasna it’s clear she is primarily interested in selling as many book copies as possible and getting as much press attention as she can. She has told me some of her concerns with UKIP, which mostly seem to be things members have said which she then claims to be party policy. Some of her claims to me like UKIP will ban all muslims and that UKIP oppose mums are as laughable as they are ridiculous. I am sure she will write a load of nonsense that allows people who want to to bash UKIP before they have to issue smaller later retractions noting that it is either nonsense or made up gobbledy gook

Following the hashtag #ukip on Twitter over the past few days, I’m inclined to think there’s no smoke without fire. My challenges regards #ukip ‘policies’ on immigration, climate change, equal marriage, reinstating fox-hunting have mostly been met with denial, outrage and often with outright abusive name-calling, blocking and then smearing me as well as plenty of smug, libellous remarks on the state of my mental health. The latter usually only being put forward once my opponents realise I happen to be a woman.

The most vehement attacks have indeed come from white/supremacists types who accuse me of being racist against them. Just because I happen to disagree… Go figure…